The 2011 movie “Contagion” follows the worldwide pandemic of a virus from Asia that kills millions. Compared to the Wuhan coronavirus, the virus in the movie is highly transmissible and highly deadly, ...

Life is imitating art as the coronavirus spreads, and people apparently can’t get enough of a book and film that depict world-shattering pandemics. The 1981 Dean Koontz novel The Eyes of Darkness and ...

The 2011 film “Contagion,” featuring an all-star cast of Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne, has seen a resurgence. People are rewatching the movie and ...

That, it turns out, is the film’s defining emotion. “Contagion” is a bad-dream biomedical disaster movie whose power is that it refuses, at every moment, to be “science fiction.” The film charts the ...

The subject matter for the film Contagion has hit a little too close to home for the movie's senior technical advisor. Dr. Ian Lipkin, the director for the Center for Infection and Immunity at ...

CBNC reported recently that Contagion “incorporated input from more than a dozen scientists, emergency room doctors, bio-safety experts and epidemiologists.” They acknowledge that the “film is by no ...

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Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" has become the second most-watched film in the Warner Bros. catalogue in 2020. “We’re not trying to scare people that they’re all going to die,” producer Michael ...

The film "Contagion" and the book "World War Z" are fictional accounts of global pandemics, but can they teach us something about the real coronavirus pandemic that we are currently facing? The answer ...

There’s a moment early in the movie “Contagion” when health officials lay out what’s known about the film’s villain, a novel virus that is sweeping the globe and leaving dead bodies in its path. For ...

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